Photon OLED Shield Hookup Guide
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Resources and Going Further
Here are a few links that should help with any further questions you may have about the Photon OLED Shield:
- Photon OLED Shield Github - for schematics and board design files
- SparkFun OLED Particle Libarary -- this is where to go for the firmware library and example code
- Particle Documentation Pages -- go here to set up and configure your Photon (or other Particle devices)
- Particle Community Forum -- anything that you couldn't find in the docs should be easily found in the community forum. If you are having trouble, search this forum first, as many of the answers are there already.
Going Further
Now that you're comfortable with the Photon OLED Shield and its Particle library, what are you going to make with it? Need some inspiration, check out these related tutorials:
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